The 2025 Pulitzer Prize Announcement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Journalism

Public Service

ProPublica

Finalists:

The Boston Globe, with contributions from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

The New York Times, for relentless reporting by Dave Philipps

Breaking News Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

Finalists:

Staff of Associated Press

Staffs of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

Investigative Reporting

Staff of Reuters

Finalists:

Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Andrew Mollica of The Wall Street Journal

Staffs of Associated Press and FRONTLINE, in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism

Explanatory Reporting

Azam Ahmed, Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer, and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times

Finalists:

Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity; Nadia Hamdan of Reveal; and Roy Hurst, contributor, Mother Jones

Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica

Local Reporting

Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times

Finalists:

Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, contributors, San Francisco Chronicle, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program

Mike Reicher, Lynda Mapes, Fiona Martin and Kevin Clark of The Seattle Times

National Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of the San Francisco Chronicle

Staff of The Washington Post

International Reporting

Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times

Finalists:

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Staff of The Washington Post

Feature Writing

Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire

Finalists:

Anand Gopal, contributing writer, The New Yorker

Joe Sexton, contributor, The Marshall Project

Commentary

Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker

Finalists:

Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times

Jerry Brewer of The Washington Post

Criticism

Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab

Finalists:

Sara Holdren of New York Magazine

Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker

Editorial Writing

Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle

Finalists:

David Scharfenberg, Alan Wirzbicki and Marcela García of The Boston Globe

Opinion Staff of The New York Times, notably W. J. Hennigan and Kathleen Kingsbury

Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post

Finalists:

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson, contributors, The Boston Globe

Iran Martinez, Steve Breen, Jamie Self and Giovanni Moujaes of inewsource.org, San Diego

Breaking News Photography

Doug Mills of The New York Times

Finalists:

Nanna Heitmann, contributor, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder and Nicole Tung, contributor, of The New York Times

Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse

Feature Photography

Moises Saman, contributor, The New Yorker

Finalists:

Lynsey Addario, contributor, The New York Times

Photography Staff of Associated Press

Audio Reporting

Staff of The New Yorker

Finalists:

Dan Taberski, Henry Molofsky, Morgan Jones, Marshall Lewy and Staffs of Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios

Staffs of WNYC and Gothamist

Books, Drama and Music

Fiction

“James,” by Percival Everett (Knopf)

Finalists:

“Headshot: A Novel,” by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)

“Mice 1961,” by Stacey Levine (Verse Chorus Press)

“The Unicorn Woman,” by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press)

Drama

“Purpose,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Finalists:

“Oh, Mary!,” by Cole Escola

“The Ally,” by Itamar Moses

History (2 Prizes)

“Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press)

“Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)

Finalist:

“Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery,” by Seth Rockman (University of Chicago Press)

Biography

“Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life,” by Jason Roberts (Random House)

Finalists:

“John Lewis: A Life,” by David Greenberg (Simon & Schuster)

“The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker,” by Amy Reading (Mariner Books)

Memoir or Autobiography

“Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir,” by Tessa Hulls (MCD)

Finalists:

“Fi: A Memoir of My Son,” by Alexandra Fuller (Grove Press)

“I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition,” by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press)

Poetry

“New and Selected Poems,” by Marie Howe (W. W. Norton & Company)

Finalists:

“An Authentic Life,” by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon Press)

“Bluff: Poems,” by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)

General Nonfiction

“To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement,” by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press)

Finalists:

“I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India,” by Rollo Romig (Penguin Press)

“Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala,” by Rachel Nolan (Harvard University Press)

Music

“Sky Islands,” by Susie Ibarra

Finalists:

“Jim is Still Crowing,” by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson

“The Comet,” by George Lewis

Special Citations

Chuck Stone

A press kit (including the full long list of winners and finalists) is available at Pulitzer.org/media. This content also is housed in the Prize Winners section of Pulitzer.org, where biographical information and winning & nominated work in Journalism and other information may be accessed.

The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.

The 18-member Pulitzer Board is composed of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia's journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members.